After just a handful of episodes , Bates Motelhas already received the unripe light for time of year two . This is good news program , because it would appear that we still have much to learn about White Pine Bay .
“What Were You Doing in That Cop’s House?”
Remember that creepy moonlit stroll Norman took last week ? You hump , the one where he barrelled down the middle of a officious street in a trance - like state , then broke into Deputy Shelby ’s house , ransacked it , found an Asian sex slave and left her there ? Well , we ’re treated to a new slant of the whole strange situation this week . As Norman left the Bates residence , Dylan passed him on his motorcycle . Wondering what his piffling brother was up to , Dylan follow Norman to Deputy Shelby ’s family and watched him bring out in . He was also there when Shelby pulled up , so — surprisingly — Dylan did Norman a unanimous by creating a deflection . This is about the same fourth dimension that Norman is discovering the girl down in the cellar , which is where the last episode finish .
Dylan knock on the threshold and pretends that his bike has track down out of gas pedal . While they ’re standing there discussing this fabricate job , Shelby has one capitulum cocked toward the dissonance come from the cellar , where the girl is essentially flummox the crap out of Norman , trying to get him to rescue her .
“ unremarkably , I would n’t ask , but I saw the police force cable car our front … ” Dylan says , playing the “ trusted appendage of law enforcement ” circuit board .
“ I ’m off duty right now , ” Shelby explicate , because law do n’t facilitate people when they ’re not on the clock . He directs Dylan to a nearby Shell station and quickly shuts the threshold . Dylan round off the box of the house just in time to see Norman make track out of there . Mission accomplished .
Since he has a ( well - fire ) motorcycle , Dylan baffle Norman home and is waiting to ambush him about his whereabouts . Norman ’s lame excuse ? “ I was out running . ” His brother ’s not buying it .
" Who do you believe knocked on the front door ? " Dylan asks . " What kind of bother are you in ? "
Norman continue to traverse : " I do n’t know what you ’re verbalise about . I ’m not in trouble . "
“I Am Decent.”
Flashback over . Back in the present day , Norman knocks on a door of a house conveniently labeled “ Decody ” so we cognize that he ’s calling on Emma . Mr. Decody answers the door .
“ You ’re Norman Bates , ” her dad realizes . “ I ’ve discover a lot about you . ”
Emma has the flu , and in her delicate condition , her father does n’t desire her to have visitor .
Then , every teenaged girl ’s worst nightmare go on : Her dad tells the son she like that she likes him . “ My girl has quite a crush on you , ” Mr. Decody says . “ And you seem like a nice kid . And I know you have a go at it she has a lot of problems . She ’s not strong , and she ’s very youthful . Just a regular girl in many ways . So please , be decent . ”
“ I am decent , ” Norman responds , almost defensively .
“This Is My Son, Dylan.”
Norma hops into Shelby ’s Jeep ; he immediately begins to grope her second joint . At first , I think she depend uncomfortable , but she does n’t seem to have much problem with what follows : Shelby suggest they go to a motel he love . “ It ’s not on the button open yet , but I happen to be personal friends with the owner , ” he say . Norma state that Norman will be home from school by 4:30 p.m. Is that an self-justification or just a warning not to lallygag ? Either way , Shelby ’s mulct with it . “ That gives us an hour , ” he state . They obviously think to make the most of that hour , because over at the motel , they ’ve ripped their shirt off faster than you could say “ McConaughey . ”
As they bask in afterglow , Norma gives the deputy sheriff the most bizarre compliment in the account of pillow talking : “ You ’re awfully pretty . I do n’t think somewhat like you ’re handsome . I mean pretty , like , um , like , you know when you look at an former adult female and you might find her very beautiful ? ”
He ’s as perplexed as we are . A few minutes later on , Norma walks out of the cabin , button things up , and go into Dylan .
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“ Hello there Norma . How are those unexampled linens working out for you ? ” he snarks , and then Shelby ill-treat out of the elbow room . As Norma introduce her lover to her Word , Shelby ’s oral cavity arrange itself into what can only be draw as a smirk . To me , it ’s a “ receive you ” look — he obviously recognizes Dylan from the “ turn tail out of gas ” incident , and Shelby has likely figured out that someone was in his sign of the zodiac in good order around the time Dylan showed up . The smirk , it would seem , is an index number that he put two and two together .
“You’re a Real Piece of Work, Norma.”
Ever the duteous son , Norman is wash windows at the motel . He look over to see Bradley putting a cross at the site of her dad ’s machine accident — though technically , his passing was due to the fact that his torso was used as kindling , not the car wreck . But I do n’t guess you ’d debate that point with a girl in mourning , and Norman does n’t . Instead , he offers his condolence , then set his arm around her and pulls her close . Emma would not be proud of . Too bad she ’s laid up with the influenza .
Inside , Dylan is putting groceries by . Norma looks near as kayoed as she did when Keith Summers came plowing into her dining room . “ What are you doing ? ! ” she asks .
“ What ? I ’m living here for a while . I just thought I should contribute . ”
She looks gently pleased until he telephone her “ a real piece of work , ” then ask how long she ’s been seeing the fuzz . She says it ’s none of his business , and he tells her that she should be measured . “ I do n’t trust him , ” Dylan says , and Norma appear paying attention .
“Death is Profound, Isn’t It?”
Later that evening , Norman is walk downtown when he get a line the lieutenant with someone pulled over . He pulls his hoodlum up . Shelby spots him anyway and call in after him , but Norman ignores him . Shelby gives chase , then bug out up down an alley . “ Freeze ! ” he yells , jumping out and shining his flashlight forthwith into Norman ’s eye , make Norman drop everything in his hands . Then Shelby laughs , and it ’s exactly reminiscent of that arrhythmic cat you knew in high school who thought his own hardly - concealed aggressiveness was totally hilarious “ one of the bozo ” behavior .
choler twinkling across Norman ’s grimace , but he quickly contain it . Shelby inquires as to what Norman is doing ; Norman explains the Bradley situation and says he ’s demand her some telecasting to help take her intellect off of her dad ’s end .
“ Death is unplumbed , is n’t it ? ” Shelby says . So many bizarre responses to affair in this instalment .
“ Hm . I guess so , ” Norman responds , unwilling to show his bridge player . Shelby plows ahead , disregard Norman ’s nonchalance .
“ search , I really wish your mom . She ’s a good fair sex and I care for her . ” Norman actually snap a little . Danger , Will Robinson !
“ So , I think it would be a good idea and peradventure even a necessary idea for you and I to get to have a go at it each other better . Do you care sportfishing ? ”
“ I do n’t know . I ’ve never done it , ” Norman pronounce .
“ Really ? ! Then I ’m going to teach you how . You ’re going to sleep with this . Trust me . ” Norman reluctantly nod . He thinks the convo is done , but Shelby take hold of him for one last second of wiseness : “ Norman ? Next meter I say hi to you out here on the street ? Do n’t run away . ”
I ’m definitely will with the feeling that Norman is not the creep in this scene .
“Sometimes You Hear and See Things That Aren’t There.”
Norma is in bed , looking up information about metropolis council group meeting . Norman come in . “ I necessitate to talk to you . I need to tell you something . ”
She ’s absorbed in the internet site , not really pay care , so he touch her Kuki — you know , as normal adolescent boy do .
“ There ’s a girl in his basement . Officer Shelby ’s . She ’s like less than 20 . drug . I think he ’s running some kind of an Asian sexual practice striver concern with Keith Summers . ”
He ’s jabber off entropy that would make any sane someone run to dial 911 , but Norma does n’t take care even remotely alarmed — just thwarted . Of the many questions she could ask , “ Why on Earth would you go into Zack ’s house ? ” is the first one .
Norman reminds her thatshewas the one who told him to get the belt back .
“ Norman , I never tell you that , ” she sigh . He rely she did , and that ’s when Norma drop the bomb : “ Honey , sometimes you learn and see matter that are n’t there . ”
“ That ’s not true , " he dissent .
“ It ’s true . I do n’t desire you to worry , but you ’ve done this for a while . It ’s like some variety of spell or something . I do n’t want you to worry . Do n’t be scared . Honey , I ’m go to protect you , ” she says , and Norman flees .
“Why Are You in the Basement in the Middle of the Night?”
Sleepover at Shelby ’s sign of the zodiac . Norma wakes up the the middle of the night to creep down to the basement just to assure herself that Norman is seeing thing . She ’s relieved when she gets down there to come up whole normal cellar stuff — no bed , no disco ball , no sex activity hard worker . She even finds the locked steel door , but there ’s nothing in there but boxes . Suddenly , the surrogate much apparates onto the screen decently behind her .
“ Why are you in the basement in the midsection of the night ? ” he yawn .
Norma freely admits that she ’s snooping , but deal to do it in a coquettish style . He seems appeased ( and completely unconcerned ) , but he must know what the deal is . Even if Norman is imagining things , he still leave a trail behind when he operate through the cellar , bump thing over and unlocking a giant steel door . I do n’t think Shelby is going to find it coincidental that two people are suddenly concerned in his cellar at the same time .
“I Need to Know That I Can Trust You, Norman.”
Back at Bates Manor , Norman is getting get dressed . His ankle is all bruised up . He frowns at it , then hastily pulls the air-sleeve up over it .
Downstairs , Norma is read on the lounge when Norman pops in to fox some angst at her about her sleepover .
She enjoin she made an superfluous turkey pot Proto-Indo European and took it over to Shelby . Is that what the tike are phone it these days ? It ’s not enough to appease Norman ’s piddling snit about it , and Norma accuses him of being jealous .
“ I ’m not jealous . You ’re my female parent , not my girlfriend , ” he spits . EXACTLY.Then Norma tells him she checked the basement . " There was nothing there . You ’re play brainsick , " she says .
“ I ’m not crazy . I know what I saw . Look , she grabbed my ankle joint as I was adjudicate to get out . Did I do this to myself ? ” Norma is still not confident , and tells Norman that he is going fishing with Zack . End of story .
So , they do . They ’re awkwardly hanging out when Shelby wades into the bonding line with this gem out of nowhere : “ So how was your family relationship with your dad ? Your mom tells me he was a fiddling abusive . ” fashion to finely ease into it , Shelby . clearly , Norman clams up , and the deputy sheriff gets angry .
“ I ’m putting myself on the bloodline every day , protecting your mom , ” he guiltiness head trip . “ And in so doing , I ’m protect you . ” Then he launches into that familiar trust voice communication again . “ I need to know that I can trust you , Norman . And you demand to know you may hope me . Can you do that ? Can you trust me ? ” His tone of voice would indicate that he ’s talk to a toddler .
“ Yes , I can hope you , ” Norman sound out very clearly and purposefully while shoot laser beams out of his eye . Then Shelby ’s phone ring . Something ’s come up .
“ Oh well , ” Norman says , and he is unable to conceal his delectation .
The thing that come up ? A fisher has light upon Keith Summers ’ very typical lookout man in his sportfishing internet . It ’s attached to his severed handwriting .
“I Killed the Crap Out of Him.”
Norman meets Bradley for a little ice-skating rink cream particular date , where she secernate him that he ’s one of the few people who are n’t judging her or pushing her to tear up .
“ I ’m happy you’re able to stand to be with me , ” he enjoin , and then they discuss heartbreak and how crappy destruction is .
“ I care being with you , Norman , ” she says , and then she short blunder out out , “ Hey , I wonder whose hand they found . ” Nice transition .
“ What hand ? ” Norman asks .
“ Um , they found a decomposing hand in a fisher ’s net . ”
“ Do they know whose mitt it was ? ” he says , faux - nonchalantly .
“ No , just some humankind ’s deal . ” Norman runs home , of course , and immediately tell his mother , who tries to pooh - pooh the place .
“ You ’re panicking . It ’s just a mitt . It could be a million different manus , " Norma enounce , which would normally be amusing , but in White Pine Bay , it reallycouldbe a number of hands . An optic for an eye — or a hand for a hand , as it were .
Then the bell rings . It ’s Shelby , but he ’s not there to be uncomfortably intimate in front of Norma ’s sons like he normally is . Instead , he ’s taking her to the station so Sheriff Romero can ask a few questions .
When she gets there , Romero want to know what take place , but Norma plays dumb . “ I was just at nursing home and the police force came and order me you wanted to talk to me . ” The sheriff is not disport . He tells her that carpet fibre were find under Summers ' watch , and that it was going to be a cakewalk to equal them to the carpet Norma(n ) was pull up that same night .
“ Well , have fun doing that , ” Norma enounce . Romero tries to get her to squeal to Keith ’s slaying by saying that he sympathized — Summers was n’t a prissy guy rope , and he may have menace her or scare her . Then he asks her where she dump the carpeting . They have n’t found it yet , and it sure would be helpful if she could tell them where she last left it . Yeah , like that ’s go to happen .
Norma , of course , says she does n’t remember , then drags Norman to the dumpster where they trashed it . The carpet is , of course , break down . She whips out her headphone , then calls the scraps avail with a fake history about lose her marriage anchor ring . They differentiate her which coldcock that particular dumpster is taken to , but when she gets there , she obtain it ’s locked up for the daytime . Norma goes a trivial crazy — we all do sometimes — and for a moment , I suppose she ’s go to throw herself into the mordacious wire at the top of the fence . Adding to the pandemonium is Norman , who ’s squall that she should have called the cops when it happened since it was ego defense .
“ I did n’t defend myself , ” she sobs . “ I stamp out the turd out of him . I do n’t know why I did it , I was just so angry , furious that he would add up into my home , and he would do that to me . You do n’t understand , Norman . My whole life — my whole life — I’ve had to put up with thing . ”
“Be a 17-Year-Old for Five Minutes.”
vacate to the fact that she ’s probably last down for this , Norma spends the quietus of the evening crying in her room . Norman listens to her through the venthole in his elbow room for a while , then makes a prison-breaking for it . He get Dylan sitting on the porch of the motel — it seems to be his favorite hangout — drinking what looks like a Southern Comfort clone .
Dylan offers Norman a draft , which he takes , promptly pop off on it . Food for persuasion : Norman ’s an alcoholic in the book that enliven thePsychocraze . Is this a look at things to come ? Or just a typical teenage moment ?
“ Do n’t express joy at me , ” Norman says , wipe his face .
“ I ’m not , ” Dylan says . “ I ’m sorry you had to handle with her alone . She ’s gaga . ” Those words are on the face of it the equivalent of “ Open Sesame , ” because Norman pulls up a seat and spills the sordid details of everything that has bump since they arrived , from Norma being stab - happy to the fille chain up in Shelby ’s cellar .
Dylan ’s strangely quiet about the outcome , and it ’s only at the end that he finally says , “ I ’m gon na help you . ” It ’s not clear if he means that he ’s go bad to help with all of this insaneness , or if he ’s going to get psychiatric help because he think Norman has gone off the deep closing .
Then Bradley texts , and from Norman ’s locution , Dylan knows it ’s a girlfriend . “ Is she pretty ? Do you care her ? Text her aright now and order her you ’re come over . ”
Norman does , show off some pretty impressive texting skills . If Norman did Ron Burgundy belief , he would have said , “ Texting was a bad choice , ” because he immediately rue his response .
Moments later , Bradley answer that she ’d love to have him over , but Norman waver . “ Be a 17 - yr - honest-to-god for five minutes , ” Dylan urges . “ Go have playfulness . ” It ’s an strangely nice fraternal second .
Norman does , and as soon as he leaves , Dylan ’s face turns into a masquerade of worry .
“Norma Louise Bates, You’re Under Arrest.”
As promised , Norman show up at Bradley ’s family . They go to her way , where he is awkward and endearing . Awkworable ? Adorward ?
“ Thank you for help me so much , ” Bradley says , taking his manus . “ I ’m just trite of being lamentable . I desire to experience something else for a little while . Do you guess I ’m uncanny ? ”
“ No . I do n’t think you ’re eldritch , ” he says . She thanks him , and he answer , “ It ’s my pleasance , ” which no 17 - class - sometime boy has ever state . Then there ’s making out ( and more ) .
At home , Norma has realized that it ’s recent , and her precious Normie is not at home yet . What ’s skilful for the gander is apparently not good for the twat . Dylan is elated to inform her that Norman is out . With a girl .
“ I hope to God he ’s getting laid , ” Dylan says , “ Because he sure as hell deserves it , for putting up with your crazy shtup . ” He then proceeds to tell her that Norman spill enough damnatory info that Dylan could get Norman engage aside , if he was so fain .
“ Nobody ’s take him away from me , ” she say .
“ That girl is , right now , ” he sneer , and then they physically start to fight — until the doorbell rings .
Norma runs downstairs , think it ’s Norman . It ’s not . It ’s the cops , and Norma is under stoppage . uncollectible . Night . Ever .
